| Author | Year | Publication |
| Hippocrates | ca. 400 BC
| Regimen |
| Galen | ca. 200 AD
| De sanitate tuenda Selected Works |
| Medici Maestros | 1463 | A Renaissance Regimen |
| Thomas Elyot | 1531 1539 | The Boke named Governour The Castel of Healthe |
| Cristobal Mendez | 1553 | The Book of Bodily Exercise |
| Luigi Cornaro | 1558 | Treatise on a Sober Life
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| Girolamo Cardano | | The Book of My Life |
| Girolamo Mercuriale | 1569 | De arte gymnastica |
| Thomas Cogan | 1584 | The Haven of Health |
| Richard Mulcaster |
| Positions |
| John Harington | 1607 | The School of Salernum |
| Robert Burton | 1621 | The Anatomy of Melancholy |
| Leonardus Lessius | 1634 | Hygiasticon |
| Tobias Venner | 1638 | Via Recta ad Vitam Longam |
| Lord Bacon |
| History of Life and Death |
| Friedrich Hoffmann | 1695 | Fundamenta Medicinae |
| Bernardini Ramazzini | 1700 | Diseases of Workers |
| Francis Fuller | 1705 | Medicina Gymnastica |
| George Cheyne | 1724 | An Essay of Health and Long Life |
| Nicolas Andry | 1743 | Whether Moderate Exercise is not the Best Preserver of Health? |
| John Armstrong | 1744 | The Art of Preserving Health |
| James MacKenzie | 1758 | The History of Health and the Art of Preserving It |
| William Buchan | 1769 | Domestic Medicine |
| Benjamin Rush | 1777 | Directions for Preserving the Health of Soldiers |
| Joseph-Clement Tissot | 1780 | Medicinal and Surgical Gymnastics |
| Bernard Christoph Faust | 1794 | Catechism of Health |
| A. F. M. Willich | 1799 | Lectures on Diet and Regimen |
| Johann GutsMuth | 1803 | Gymnastics for Youth: or A Practical Guide. . . . |
| Shadrach Ricketson | 1806 | Means of Preserving Health |
| Edward Cutbush | 1808 | Observations on the Means of Preserving Health |
| James Thacher | 1817 | American Modern Practice |
| A. Richerand | 1819 | Elements of Physiology |
| James Johnson | 1820 | The Influence of Civic Life, Sedentary Habits, . . . |
| James Ewell | 1822 | The Medical Companion |
| William Kitchiner | 1824 | The Art of Invigorating and Prolonging Life |
| P.H. Clias | 1825 | An Elementary Course of Gymnastic Exercises |
| John C. Gunn | 1830 | Gunn's Domestic Medicine |
| Thomas J. Graham | 1831 | Sure Methods of Improving Health and Prolonging Life |
| Porter | 1831 | The Catechism of Health |
| Edward Hitchcock | 1831 | Dyspepsia |
| William P. Dewees | 1832 | A Treatise on the Physical & Medical Treatment of Children. |
| John Sinclair | 1833 | The Code of Health and Longevity |
| Charles Caldwell | 1833 | Thoughts on Physical Education |
| Andrew Combe | 1834 | Principles of Physiology |
| Robley Dunglison | 1835 | On the Influence of Atmosphere and Locality |
| Elisha Bartlett | 1838 | Obedience to the Laws of Health, a Moral Duty |
| J. L. Comstock | 1844 | Outlines of Physiology |
| John Warren | 1845 | Physical Education and the Preservation of Health |
| O. S. Fowler | 1847 | Physiology, Animal and Mental: Applied to the Preservation and . . . |
| James Manby Gully | 1847 | The Water Cure in Chronic Disease |
| M. M. Rodgers | 1848 | Physical Education and Medical Management of Children |
| Edward Johnson | 1849 | The Domestic Practice of Hydropathy |
| Calvin Cutter | 1852 | Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene |
| R. T. Trall | 1852 1857 | The Hydropathic Encyclopedia The Illustrated Family Gymnasium |
| Joel Shew | 1844 1854
1850 | Handbook of Hydropathy Consumption: Prevention & Cure by the Water Treatment The Water-Cure Manual: A Popular Work |
| Captain Chiosso | 1855 | The Gymnastic Polymachinon |
| William-Edward Coale | 1855 | Hints on Health |
| "Craven" | 1855 | Walker's Manly Exercises |
| Catharine Beecher | 1856
1856 | Physiology and Calisthenics for Schools and Families Calisthenic Exercises, For Schools, Families and Health Establ. |
| H. Halstead | 1856 | Motorpathy, and Motion — Life |
| William Alcott | 1857 | The Laws of Health |
| Thomas Bailey | 1857 | Records of Longevity |
| Addison P. Dutcher | 1858 | Exercise: its Physiology and Utility |
| William W. Hall | 1859 1869
1877 | Health and Disease; a Book for the People The Guidebook to Health, Peace, & Competence Dyspepsia, and its Kindred Diseases |
| John King | 1860 | The American Family Physician |
| George Taylor | 1860 | An Exposition of the Swedish Movement-Cure |
| Henry Heather Bigg | 1865 | Orthopraxy: The Medical Treatment of Deformities, . . . |
| Worthington Hooker | 1866 | Human Physiology |
| Archibald Maclaren | 1866 | Training, in Theory and Practice |
| Thomas Inman | 1868 | On the Value of Exercise |
| J. N. Loughborough | 1868 | Handbook of Health; or, A Brief Treatise on Physiology & Hygiene |
| Dio Lewis | 1871
1883 | Weak Lungs, and How to Make them Strong The New Gymnastics |
| Richard McSherry | 1879 | Health, and How to Promote It |
| M. Augusta Fairchild | 1879 | How to be Well
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| C. Klemm | 1879 | Muscle-beating |
| William Mason Cornell | 1880 | Clergy mens & Students Health |
| T. L. Nichols | 1881 | The Diet Cure: An Essay on the Relations of Food and Drink |
| Felix Oswald | 1882 | Physical Education Or, Health Laws of Nature |
| George H. Taylor | 1883 | Health by Exercise |
| William Blaikie | 1883 1884 | How to Get Strong and How to Stay So Sound Bodies for Our Boys and Girls |
| Joseph Schreiber | 1887 | A Manual of Treatment by Massage and Methodological ..... |
| Marcus P. Hatfield | 1887 | The Physiology and Hygiene of the House in Which We Live |
| Hartvig Nissen | 1889 | Practical Massage and Corrective Exercises with Applied Anatomy |
| Fernand Lagrange | 1890 | Physiology of Bodily Exercise |
| William Dewitt Hyde | 1891 | A Rational System of Physical Training |
| Mary Taylor Bissell | 1893 | Physical Development and Exercise for Women |
| Genevieve Stebbins | 1893 | Dynamic Breathing & Harmonic Gymnastics |
| John Harvey Kellogg | 1895 | The Art of Massage: A Practical Manual for the Nurse, Student & .. |
| William T. Harris | 1898 | The Effect of Exercise on the Vital Organs |
| Josiah Quincy | 1898 | Playgrounds, Baths and Gymnasia |
| Anders Wide | 1902 | Hand-book of Medical & Orthopedic Gymnastics |
| Axel V. Grafstrom | 1904 | A Text-book of Mechano-therapy |
| Samuel Smiles | 1905 | Physical Education of the Young; Or, The Nurture and Management.. |
| Harry H. Moore | 1915 | Keeping in Condition |
| Lynch & Cumming | 1918 | How to Keep Fit in Camp and Trench |
| Walter Camp | 1919 | Keeping Fit all the Way: How to Obtain and Maintain Health . . . . . |
| Dudley Reed | 1939 | Keep Fit and Like It |
| Dorothy Nye | 1942 | Lady be Fit! Exercises for Energy, Efficiency & Lasting Health |